just a hint of elephant
December 4th, 2006 | Published in general
I’ve been drinking tea at work for a few weeks now, replacing the coffee i’d bring in with me every day as a substitute for the crap that sits in the glass pots all day at work. Last week i’d been through most of the tea in my work stash, and the Tea Source catalog happened to arrive in the mail (they’re local to us, a nice shop).
While browsing for a couple of teas to get, i got interested in one of their puerh teas, and as it happened, Autumn bought one for me while she was out this weekend even though i hadn’t mentioned it yet (great minds and all).
Well, i made a cup to try it out, and it’s pretty good. Dark but smooth, not bitter. Plenty of caffeine i think. Autumn tried a sip (she had a cup of green tea herself), and said, “hmm… tastes like elephant”.
Maybe Peurh is just one of those things like pine tar soap that women tend not to like? I had no idea that it was illegal to import it here until 1995.